Need Help Configuring a German Keyboard

[Kevin Fries]

OK, back to my desk...

Here is what you are looking for:

http://wiki.debian.org/I18n/ibus

good luck
Kevin



On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Kevin Fries <kfries6 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Does debian testing use ibus like Ubuntu does?   If so, its quite easy, and
> lots of tutorials exist on the net, but the keys to finding them is the term
> ibus.  I use japanese input all the time, and it works great.  But I'm on my
> phone right now and don't have thelinks in front of me.
>
> If ibus is not available, maybe someone more familiar with debian testing
> will have a better answer.
>
> Kevin
>
> On Aug 17, 2010 12:52 PM, "Mark Phillips" <mark at phillipsmarketing.biz>
> wrote:
>
> I need to type some German documents, so I would like to use a German
> keyboard. My daughter's Mac had a nifty gadget that allows her to switch her
> keyboard from English to Spanish when she types papers in Spanish. It has a
> cute little Spanish flag on her menu bar and it also popped up a keyboard
> map so she could see where the extra accented keys were located when she
> typed in Spanish. Is there something similar for Gnome/Debian testing?
>
> I can switch the keyboard using System->Preferences->Keyboard to a German
> keyboard, but I would like a visual representation of the keyboard to know
> where the keys are located (ie qwerty is actually qwertz on a German
> kezboard=. There is supposed to be a gnome applet called keyboard
> indicator,  but I can't seem to find it on my system or find it in the
> Debian repository. The references I have seen are to click on a a panel and
> select "keyboard indicator" to install it....but I ain't got one of those
> darn things as an option! Very frustrating!
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mark
>
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